“Hours after an ex-con wanted for skipping court was arrested for lying to Fair Lawn police, he threw a brick through the window of a local bakery during a burglary, authorities said. Sure enough, 53-year-old R.J. Button Baker of Hackensack was released again, under the terms of New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law. Officer Justin […]

Harris County, Texas shows that more than 40 percent of defendants released by the sheriff under the court-mandated bonds, the Arnold Foundation pretrial release system, aren’t showing up to their hearings. The laughable excuse by the supporters of the Arnold Foundation program is that, “these numbers are inflated because those released by the sheriff are […]

Daily Voice – New Jersey By: Jerry DeMarco One of the staples of police work, the traffic stop, continues to produce a bounty of arrests in Franklin Lakes – often of people arrested elsewhere who then skipped court. The only “catch,” though is that all had to be released, courtesy of New Jersey’s 2017 bail […]